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Hmmm, seems you have a plethora of new decals too! Nice job. Think my Wards also came with a white recoil cover but I thought that may have been a replacement. Not so sure now. The General 10 did have a gold cover but it was all beat up.

That thing is for blowing something. Now I see, it's made for hand held use and has a throttle speed control.

This is what happens when you forget and leave them to long That sucks! Old style body with a valve in it and using a valve to hold the primer section on too. Maybe someone needed spare valves At $100 each I'd sell all of mine. $6000 + would finance enough complete engines and then some to replace'm all. There's plenty of good shows around here. The best one is down in Colchester CT. Zagray Farm Museum. Lots to see there with many permanent displays of the museum plus all the people which bring their stuff to show, sell and display. Huge vending area with lots of stuff, free on site primitive camping right on the display field. 3 shows per year, Spring Summer and Fall. We bring vintage garden tractors to cruise around on and display with plenty of spare tractors to ride. I've displayed O&Rs there a few times but never the entire collection at once. I'd bring'm all if you guys showed up plus try and get Usedtoolman Jim to bring his stuff. That would probably make around 75 tools or more. Easily over 100 if it included just the engines without a tool. I've always wanted to go the Florida Flywheelers show so...

Not sure of this manufacturer for the carb. Maybe @Webhead knows? Here's a pic of an Octura carb.

But the tank fill neck would need to be facing the fan blade in that orientation so it doesn't empty and would be difficult to fill. Which orientation does the bracket hold the tank?

Still curious if that is actually a manhole fan. It's my understanding those fans blow air into the holes to ventilate the areas. Seems blowing in the engine exhaust would not be a good idea but maybe the amount of exhaust compared with the amount of air volume makes it minimal. Does the tank have a bracket? That would give the orientation of how it's intended to be used, either like it is in the pic or horizontal.

This was posted a while back under a Polaris Pole thread. Gets painful to watch after a while but it's worse when you're actually do'n it yourself.

Nice score! Get to work! Terry has been knocking them out recently so have to keep up.

Just happened across this thread while searching for something else. This was posted before we had the O&R section so I don't think some of the tools were ever posted in here.

Just couldn't stand seeing this sit on epay any longer and really not sure why someone didn't grab it. Price was right for one of these more rare engines with a water cooled head, glow plug conversion and the remote control carb (not sure of the manufacturer). This thing has great compression, a pretty clean pull rope and barely any residue in the exhaust manifold. It has been run but certainly not much. Think I have 2 other water cooled engines so I guess it's time to find an old school boat to power up. This one has only the top portion of the head water cooled but I like to have the recoil start anyway. The type with full head water cool can go without a flywheel and blower housing to lighten them up if preferred.

That should clean up nice. Glad you finally received it and a good addition to the collection Mine doesn't have that black blade guard on the bottom. Wonder if I could get Terry @JUST O&R the metal man to repop one for me?

Now give that skateboard a try! I see it all ready to go right there in your pic

Thanks! I'll get some baffles in the mail and Clint's vertical tank. I'll include the NOS gaskets with the tank. That material is probably the best thing we'll find anyway so I'd say it's a go.

10 ft by 3 ft is only $25. That would supply the world for a while. I'm in. Those gaskets are nice to have after opening an engine. Do you have NOS gaskets to send along to Eric? I have some if not.

My auger bit is aftermarket. Took a while to find a little one that looks right but I now have 2 of them. These gearboxes are filled with gear oil. I can't remember if I just used the old seals or found new ones to use

Instructions: Take your pants out of her pocketbook and put them on. just mess'n with ya! I have a home office upstairs so doing stuff like this isn't typically a problem. These are tiny small so it's not a problem so far. She can't stand the stink of gas and especially that old gas smell. Any solvent would be a big problem too but this citrus degreaser has opened up a whole new opportunity for me to work on stuff when I can. I don't typically ask for permission, just wait for the complaining to start and deal with then. So far so good with this stuff and she hasn't noticed a thing. Spraying them outside first works real good to dumb down the gas smell. It doesn't seem to affect the paint either so... The idiot that shipped the TT400 didn't drain the 40 year old gas out so the whole thing was covered in it from rolling around inside the bubble wrap during shipping. Can't believe the post office didn't flag it for hazardous material because the whole package stunk so bad. Sprayed it outside, gave it a quick wipe down and brought it in the house. She never noticed or said a thing and believe you me, she doesn't pass on ANY opportunity to complain! After treating that gas tank it doesn't stink anywhere near like it did before.

What's this manhole fan? Please post the link. I know David saves all of those pics for reference so I'll try and grab some Edit Never mind, found it

Pretty rare item but there has been few pop up. They advertise it doubles as a regular gas powered drill with a chuck added on the end shaft. Is the shaft end threaded? That's for a drill chuck Do you have the auger bit? Here's a thread for mine, it also had the recoil changed

No info from the seller? Once they enter the shipping info it's shows at least it was really shipped. If you see it never had ant of that info entered or it never showed it was picked up, then I would blame the seller.

Exactly. These seals don't need to swell very much and the carb cleaner seems to soften them as well. It won't work for the hard brittle stuff but the ones that are still pliable and a little stiff, it should. Just another thing from the bag of tricks! Like Joe told me when I first got into these things, "You gotta be resourceful" Especially for the actual tool stuff attached to the engine. Be sure to share your results!

Try soaking the old ones in spray carb cleaner. It swells the rubber. I have sprayed small engine carbs without removing the rubber bowl gasket by mistake. They swell enough to not fit back properly after carb cleaner. I'm not sure how long it lasts but I ended up throwing one out after couple weeks because it never did shrink back to fit. Or maybe I just didn't wait long enough. Try experimenting if you're up for it. Re-generizing those old seals would make them plentiful. Think there was a bunch of the induction side crank seals in that parts stash.

Anything you're looking for? Think I have some used baffles but not many.

The keys and the taper are the same. The shaft that was in that engine is for a different style engine and therefore it's longer. Plus it was only one side of a different shaft I believe. The other side was right or at least it works perfectly fine. I believe it's because the engine I have uses the plastic bearing cages and that longer shaft is from and engine with the newer roller bearing and 2 washers on the side. This is exactly where David always shines as he could probably provide exact part #s, exact measurements, which engines, DOM, ect. ect. That guy is incredible! Remove the plug and add a few drops of fuel mix and fire it up. That way you don't have to mess with the carb again. Carb adjustments can be made later if someone wants to run it.

1/32 Had some before but they're MIA

So a few of us have some NOS parts but if it's contents is anything like mine, there's an abundance of some but nothing for others. So, maybe some trading of parts will help diversify our portfolios, maybe not but might as well make an effort. I'll have to go through what's out there to inventory it. It's not a huge stash of parts but I'm willing to trade the multiples. Carb parts, besides diaphragms, nice recoil housings and the can type gas tanks are always a premium item. Off the top of my head, here's a few I have. NOS newer type governor veins Gov springs for the bottom of the carb There's about 6 or so air filters but those are a coveted item. I'd still be willing to share a couple new and old school high speed carb needles Induction side crank seals 1 or 2 recoil springs new points sets piston rings gearbox gaskets Autolite spark plugs equivalent to the 10 mm Champion UY-6 plugs wire holders for the recoil rope to the spool (but you can use common copper wire for these) For used parts carb diaphragm caps with the primer button Some check valve bottom halves with different fuel inlet locations Some heads different gearboxes. TT generator parts Misc engine parts I'm short on Mufflers Carb arm springs the smaller ball bearing for carb check valve (but I'll have to go check the drawers at the old hardware store again)